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The Most Complex Object In Mathematics, The Mandelbrot Set ... Is So Complex As To Be Uncontrollable By Mankind And Describable As 'chaos'.

It Was Astonishing When At One Point, I Got The Idea Of How To Make Artifical Clouds With A Collaborator, We Had Pictures Made Which Were Theoretically Completely Artificial Pictures Based Upon That One Very Simple Idea. And This Picture Everybody Views As Being Clouds.

The Straight Line Has A Property Of Self-similarity. Each Piece Of The Straight Line Is The Same As The Whole Line When Used To A Big Or Small Extent.

There Are Very Complex Shapes Which Would Be The Same From Close By And Far Away.

I've Been A Professor Of Mathematics At Harvard And At Yale. At Yale For A Long Time. But I'm Not A Mathematician Only. I'm A Professor Of Physics, Of Economics, A Long List. Each Element Of This List Is Normal. The Combination Of These Elements Is Very Rare At Best.